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William Bache's Silhouettes Album
« on: Wednesday 19 April 23 17:12 BST (UK) »
"With the launch of the website, the National Portrait Gallery's curatorial team has also revealed the identities of the hundreds more of those who sat for Bache. Over the past few years, they've matched the names Bache listed with each portrait to real people using the genealogy database Ancestry"

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/william-bache-album-smithsonian-getty/index.html
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: William Bache's Silhouettes Album
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 April 23 21:28 BST (UK) »
  Really interesting - thank you.
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